Contact consortium
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The Contact Consortium is a California 501c(3) non-profit corporation founded in 1995 by software architect Bruce Damer, anthropologist Jim Funaro, and science fiction writer Keith Ferrel to serve as a catalyst and forum for the emerging medium of multi-user virtual world
s and virtual communities in cyberspace. The Contact Consortium, sometimes known as "CCon" grew out of CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination, an organization dedicated to "Anthropology for the future" which holds the annual CONTACT conference
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Virtual world
A virtual world is an online community that takes the form of a computer-based simulated environment through which users can interact with one another and use and create objects. The term has become largely synonymous with interactive 3D virtual environments, where the users take the form of...
s and virtual communities in cyberspace. The Contact Consortium, sometimes known as "CCon" grew out of CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination, an organization dedicated to "Anthropology for the future" which holds the annual CONTACT conference
Contact Conference
Contact is an annual interdisciplinary conference that brings together to exchange ideas, stimulate new perspectives and encourage serious, creative speculation about humanity's future...
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